may-rain

Updated: May 7, 2025

All the long day the low clouds had been dropping freshness down; the soft May-rain, which falls warm and silent, as if the spring were weeping itself away for very gladness. Through the open window came the faint odour which the earth gives forth during rain an odour of bursting leaves and dew-covered flowers. On the lawn you could almost "have seen the grass grow."

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Olive: A Novel